A lot of media firms run awards programs. We want to do something different.

Open Awards: Many awards programs end in a typical self-congratulatory event that costs hundreds of dollars (at least) to attend. I don’t know — it feels kind of old boys, exclusive country clubish.

With the Tearsheet awards, we want to do something digital. Our awards programs will happen all online — open to everyone. The award show — if you want to call it that — will happen via a webinar, freely open to everyone.

More content, more experience: Instead of doing a data dump of awards one time a year, we’re going to do a surgical award program every month. And unlike awards programs that seem separated from our core mission, our awards programs will be integrated into the content that we’re reporting on every single day.

Top judges

We’ve got a panel of amazing judges for our first program — the Bank / Fintech Partnership Awards. We’re adding more every day, too.

Leslie Campisi, chief marketing officer, Anthemis

Karl Mohan, head of strategic partnerships and growth, a large Australian bank

Joe Schmidt, investor, Accel Partners

David Citron, partner, Global Founders Capital

Andy Behr, chief of staff, WEEL

Josh Liggett, fintech lead and senior analyst, OurCrowd

Does your financial institution or fintech have a great story to tell about partnerships? We’d like to hear it.